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From: pcm@iwarp.intel.com (Phil Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Booting MINIX from a 720K 3.5 floppy
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Date: 16 Mar 90 02:29:33 GMT
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In article <13990@nigel.udel.EDU> SYJXN%NASAGISS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jim Newell) writes:
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>  Has anyone tried to boot MINIX from a 3.5 in floppy, or does anyone
>know how to make a boot disk on a 3.5 in floppy. I need to run it on
>my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated


Yes, I've successfully booted & run MINIX on a Zenith laptop computer.
I didn't do anything special to make it work, just made a boot disk (on
another machine), a root file system disk, and booted it up just fine.


I sort of made a point of doing this; for some reason, I got a perverse kick out
of running (something like) Unix on a computer while riding in a car between
Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington; maybe this is a first?


Phil
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Phil Miller             iWarp Development Program
pcm@iwarp.intel.com     Intel Corporation
                        Beaverton, Oregon